How about today’s, random complete freeze. Had to hard reboot then spend 30 minutes watching it trying to “fix the issue”. It then failed to find anything. So I had to force it to reboot to windows. Then it worked fine the rest of the day.

While it was down, I was working on my 11 year old, budget laptop running Mint.

My work truck looks like this most days. I spent 4-6 hours per day driving in remote areas/off-road.

I have more sensitive gear and equipment I need for my job in the back seat The bed is also usually full of equipment that is not as sensitive.

I keep a cooler full of water and several boxes of granola bars inside.

So whenever I fill up the tank, I spend a few minutes tossing trash out of the truck. It’s the only way I have found to keep the pile of mess somewhat under control.

Once I year I clear out the truck and have it detailed to start fresh on the dirt buildup.

From what I understand it represents a change in strategy for Russia. They used to drive in a column of armor with a ton of APC’s/tanks drop off a mass of infantry in a group. Ukraine figured out how to turn these columns into a series of smoking ruins and dead/wounded infantry.

Russia has burned through its massive stockpiles of armor. The storage bases are empty. So they are using the armor they have conservatively. They can only use what their industry can produce from new anymore.

Russia is sneaking troops around in small groups at night or when the weather downs drones. Ukraine then has to detect and eliminate them. It’s slower wok.

That’s what happens when the successors do everything in their power to destroy your libraries. The destruction of the enemies history and literature is a longstanding human tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries

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Just saying.

I disabled it as soon as they were launched. I also disabled the quick reply, reactions, and to text messages etc.

Yep I did it. There is still some annoying bits of it floating around that you can’t get rid of.

Likely a lot less than somebody sitting at an office asking AI a few questions a day.

They still find a way to delay the first flight out. You know gotta start the day of right.

I used to fly over 400K miles per year. Now I avoid it like the plague. It’s truly gotten terrible. It started with the checked baggage fees and has only gone downhill from there.

The phones in the midrange are getting to be better than the top end ones in my opinion. Decent enough build quality for the phone to last 3-4 years. Expensive enough that the bloatware is reduced. If the company does do a modified launcher it’s generally pretty clean.

I am liking the OnePlus 13R I picked up. Stable UI, decent battery life, and not a bad price. The stock launcher does a pretty decent job.

For my work phone I have a Pixel 8. I really regret buying it. I had to disable 30 different bloatware apps. Plus I have 4 apps that I have rejected all updates because they can’t be disabled. I also installed a launcher because the stock pixel UI is trash. The hardware is solid and works well once you clear out the buggy bloatware

Apple made a major fuckup with IOS26. I upgraded my iPad and felt nauseous from the blur effect almost instantly. I can’t completely get rid of it, just make it less horrific. Their “new” multitasking options I am not even bothering to turn on or try to use yet. This is like their 10th edition of multitasking. Let’s see if they get it right this time. Then I will bother to learn their “simple” process that usually involves having to read a manual and remember half a dozen new commands. Fuck it still takes me 2 or 3 attempts to get the the home screen without a button.

Almost there…

A small cordless drill with a torque setting plus a driver set. A short flexible bit holder for the tight spots.

Drop the torque setting all the way down then use the drill for most of the work. Then finish tightening with a reacheting screwdriver.

On a smoke break. Permanently.

The lesser known history:

Gordy was moved up to an assistant to the upper echelons in 1958. This was right at the time Henry Moyle almost bankrupted the cult with massively overspending on building construction. Combined with the Baseball Baptism scandal they need somebody for damage control.

Gordy was a journalist by training who excelled at propaganda. He was a master of the craft. He buried the baseball baptism scandal and hid the financial records. For this in 1962 he was promoted up.

He was likely heavily involved in hiding the rampant sexual abuse issues in the cult. Hiding and flat out lying about how how much money the cult had amassed and excelled at being the slimy smiling bastard distracting everyone from the facts.

Companies who have checklist to make sure they get “all” of the company property back are awesome. It’s always made by HR with no clue what the job entails. I returned all of the company property listed items on the checklist.

Gordy was anextremely successful liar. He was responsible for the majority of the massive hoarding of wealth.

Last layoff - real human beings- “Do you have time to drive to the office for a meeting? We are so sorry, business isn’t going well an we are having to cut whole departments. You are laid off the end of the week plus severence. Return the truck laptop, phone etc then. We’ll transfer the phone number to you, the supplier contracts etc that you brought in, we will sign off to you as well.”

Layoff before slimy corporate shills (all laid off a year later) teams meeting labeled as business discussion". Surprise, HR is on the call. You are not allowed to drive the company vehicle. At the end of this call IT will cut off the laptop phone and we’ll arrange for for someone to go to you house and collect company property.

So I drove the truck for 4 hours to collect all the stuff from my 3 offices. Then grabbed a guy from the last stop to drive the truck back after I finished cleaning it out at home. While I was driving I called up the new job I was supposed to start 2 months later and said, “Hey you guys OK will me starting next month instead?” I then took a nice 3 week vacation. Getting severance from a job I was going to quit, chef’s kiss .

He’s a fucking amateur compared to the experts.

Mormons have hundreds of billions.

There’s a vast difference between advertising a good product that is useful to hyping trash.

Good products at a reasonable price usually require a brief introduction but quickly snowball into customer based word-of-mouth sales.

Hype is used to push an inferior or marginally useful product at a higher price.

Remember advertising is expensive. The money to pay for it has to come from somewhere. The more they push a product the higher the margin the company/investors expect to make on its sales.

This is why if I see more than one or two ads for a product it goes on my mental checklist of shit not to buy.

Assuming human intelligence naturally follows a normal distribution model plus add in confounding factors like: malnutrition, chemicals, abuse, etc. that are known to degrade human reasoning. Reasoning is further restricted by limiting access to education and extensive false propaganda. These factors flattens and shift the distribution curve to the left.

The millions of people who voted for him are morons what are easily manipulated by their ignorance and fear.

This has always been the Achilles heal of a democratic systems.

Heavily planted tanks are very forgiving. Give the plants a few days to suck up excess nutrients and the bacterial colony in the soil to recover a bit.

Do a quick test to make sure everything is okay and toss the fish in. 3-4 days tops…